> I have a hunch that AI assisted translations are going to revolutionize the literary world in the next few years. There's a huge opportunity for publishers to

> I have a hunch that AI assisted translations are going to revolutionize the literary world in the next few years. There's a huge opportunity for publishers to broaden their markets for already proven authors to essentially the entire planet. Of course that won't make things any easier for new authors. They're already good enough for a tiny language like Norwegian, that I've considered using it for my own books (I'm Norwegian, but write in English, to my editor's chagrin - my English is good but I still make many stupid mistakes especially when tired). They're not good enough not to have a native reader read through the result and edit, hence why I'd only consider using it for my native Norwegian so far. I wouldn't dare try to use it for French or German, even though I read both, as my command of those languages isn't good enough that I'd trust myself to catch more subtle problems. But I agree with you - it won't take much before they'll at least drastically cut the cost of translations even if you need a translator to clean up the result. There's no way translating my novels to a smaller language would pay off at current prices - I'd need English sales several times higher before I'd consider it realistic for it to break even in most other languages. I don't much care about making money from them, but I'm not going to do it if I can only expect to lose money. If I can get translations at, say 1/10th of current costs, I might well end up having them translated to 10-20 languages or more.